Today, the first official release of MangoHud went out, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux. This enables you to get a HUD on your games with fancy details like FPS and Frame Timings, GPU and CPU utilization, GPU and CPU temperature reporting and more.
Originally a fork of the Mesa drivers "with the overlay files modified to produce the hud", it's now an entirely new project separate from Mesa and it works across different GPUs including NVIDIA. Their intention is to be an alternative to the Mesa overlay and the DXVK HUD and they've certainly got my vote as it works great!
Pictured: MangoHud (top left) with Jupiter Hell on my Manjaro/NVIDIA system.
It also has logging capabilities, so it can be useful for some benchmarking too. Allowing you to start and stop the logging with the tap of a button to record things like FPS, CPU & GPU utilization. I can see all sorts of uses for a handy open source project like this.
What I also appreciate is how easy it is to use. Once installed, all you have to do is add this as a launch option for a game on Steam for example:
MANGOHUD=1 %command%
Impressive stuff, I was looking for something exactly like this not long ago and came up completely short. Will definitely be keeping an eye on this.
You can find MangoHud on GitHub.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: PhlebiacNah. That's server-side infrastructure for creating/maintaining repositories. From user's perspective it is still enabled via ordinary "/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo" config files.Quoting: Alm888Here at Fedora we do not call 3rd-party repositories like "RPM Fusion" some fancy names
Well, we do have "Cool Other Package Repo"
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Copr
Quoting: TheRiddickPerformance wise, NTFS is pretty damn fast under windows
Definitely not my experience, but for general desktop use / gaming I guess it's fine.
Quoting: TheRiddickconsidering moving to EXT4 and just using a paragon license.
I've been hoping Phoronix would do some benchmarks (even asked once), but he never has.
Quoting: TheRiddickAND NO I REFUSE to use BTRFS, its amazingly slow, as proven continuously with benchmarks and comparisons!
:D
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mangohud
TheRiddick Feb 6, 2020
Quoting: PhlebiacI've been hoping Phoronix would do some benchmarks (even asked once), but he never has.
There are benchmarks comparing NTFS EXT4 BTRFS XFS on phoronix site. There may be some windows10 based benchmarks but I can't recall.
Nice work! =)
Quoting: Alm888Same as PPAs are config files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d on Ubuntu, and a key added just like with Copr. Does it bother you that there are graphical and commandline frontends for it so that users do not have to know about the config files?Quoting: PhlebiacNah. That's server-side infrastructure for creating/maintaining repositories. From user's perspective it is still enabled via ordinary "/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo" config files.Quoting: Alm888Here at Fedora we do not call 3rd-party repositories like "RPM Fusion" some fancy names
Well, we do have "Cool Other Package Repo"
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Copr
Reading through https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Copr and https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA?action=show&redirect=PPA it is really the same concept just implemented differently off course.
hammadnadeemx Feb 7, 2020
Quoting: hammadnadeemxHow to enable this with lutris for other non steam games ?If you got it installed system wide, it should be as simple as adding the environment variable under system options tab as
MANGOHUD 1
It doesn't seem to work for me at all. I'm reluctant to open an issue on the GitHub repo because I'm curious if other people are having issues with it first.
The install instructions on the readme don't work and installing it via the release file doesn't appear to do anything.
Can folks confirm that it is working and maybe provide some screenshots?
Quoting: egeeHave people actually used this or are people talking about how cool it is and then moving on?The article screenshot is literally me using it. Download, extract, cd into the folder, install, done. Then add it as a launch option for a Vulkan game or DXVK. Works great for me.
It doesn't seem to work for me at all. I'm reluctant to open an issue on the GitHub repo because I'm curious if other people are having issues with it first.
The install instructions on the readme don't work and installing it via the release file doesn't appear to do anything.
Can folks confirm that it is working and maybe provide some screenshots?
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